Thursday, April 28, 2016

The Indignant Slobs of History

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The
Society of Proud and Morally Indignant Autocrats: We are despots and
proud of it. We shoot into the crowds we oppress. We shoot to kill. We are effective..
We are at peace with ourselves and what we do. We don't take anything from our
people as some claim. The people, the country and its wealth are ours by virtue
of our dominance over them. What we do is give, we give security for the whole,
and we reward loyalty. We do not preach human rights and violate them. To us,
rights stem from loyalty, and a willingness to pay the price of our collective
security. We do not promote democracy one day, and indifference another. We are
consistent. All our prisons are Guantanamo, and worse. And all our prisoners
are guilty. Period. Consistency is all. Democracy is hypocrisy.

Table of current IGDs in anchor countries

Index of Global Delirium

8.8

United States of America

8.7

Russia

9.5

Japan

7.4

United Kingdom

8.7

China

9.0

India

9.2

France

8.3

Iran

9.5

Israel

9.6

Germany

8.1

Turkey

9.5

Brazil

9.4

Belgium

9.1

Syria

9.9

Pakistan

9.6

Saudi Arabia

9.6

Iraq

9.9

Lebanon

9.8

Egypt

9.8

Yemen

9.9

Nigeria

9.8

Myanmar

9.2

Sudan

9.7

South Africa

8.8

The Index
reflects the state of delirium in a particular country using a 1 to 10 count,
with 10 denoting the highest level of delirium. Levels of delirium change on
the basis of current development in said country, such as instability,
terrorism, elections, sports events and the like, as well as relevant global developments
such financial meltdowns, certain leaks, and stock market indices. Countries
shown above are among those where fluctuation in the national and local
indices have a greater global impact than is the case with other countries. Note:
levels of violence and delirium do not always coincide. Indeed, a country can
have a high delirium level even though it is relatively stable.

“The catastrophic deterioration
in Aleppo over the last 24-48 hours” has jeopardised the aid lifeline that
delivers supplies to millions of Syrians. “I could not in any way express how
high the stakes are for the next hours and days.” Jan
Egeland, chairman of the UN humanitarian task force'

The Delirica

The
Indignant: People who have nothing to offer but moral indignation
and faultfinding don’t solve problems. No matter what they tell us, and
themselves, their opinions and contributions are self-serving first and
foremost. I try not to be one of these people. My moral indignation is
often coupled with some concrete proposals and an attempt at trying to
distinguish the ideal from the practical, and the possible from the illusory. I
might falter at occasions, or always, it’s really easy to falter in this regard
when you’re an advocate with a healthy ego to boot (the body and mind not so
much these days), but at least I do try.
And I will keep on trying. That, too, is part of advocacy.

The
Slope and the Slob: There is a slippery slope argument that can, and
should, be made in connection with inaction and indecision: they could lead to
paralysis, leaving problems to fester and grow beyond control, as more and more
actors seem to take advantage of your absence to create new facts on the ground
that will be hard to change or challenge down the road. The previous
administration tried to compensate for its blunder in Iraq through the surge,
and it succeeded for a while. This administration, however, sees victory in its
blunders, so why on earth does it need to change anything? So, no ground troops
will be sent to where they are desperately needed, and no
no-fly zones will be established to help the desperate. It will be up to
the next administration to deal with this “mess.” Obama is too busy being
victorious, too busy being proud even as genocide unfolds, too busy being
self-righteous, to do anything.

The
Arc of History: If the arc of history does bend towards justice it’s
on account of our choices and actions, collective and individual. I don’t see
how allowing Russia, Iran and the Assad regime to get away with mass killing
can help in this regard. But we are, nonetheless, expected to believe that it
does. On the other hand, it’s clear by now that President Obama’s proffered
reasons for not intervening in Syria have little to do with reality, and everything
to do with the vision he has for the future of American-Iranian relations.
In order to secure that vision, it seems, Syria needed to be sacrificed. Will
the result of this involuntary sacrifice help the arc of history keep bending
toward justice? As far as the Syrian people are concerned, the answer is
probably a resounding no.

Vladdipus
Prepares for Trouble At Home:Vladimir
Putin's National Guard 'must be allowed to fire into crowds' say lawmakers.
By creating the legal framework that justifies firing into crowd on the ground
“that in
these cases the risk of harm to a random person would be justified,” Vladdipus
Hex seems to be already preparing for the looming trouble at home, perhaps in
time for that major popular reenactment of the Russian Revolution that might
just take place around 2017. No rest for the autocrat.

The
Colors of the Besieged: Reports from the activists on the ground
tell of different stories about the fate of the residents of besieged towns
after they were allowed to leave. The Sunni in habitants of Madaya and Zabadani
near Damascus, which have been besieged by pro-regime and militias and
Hezbollah troops, were housed by the regime in a nearby detention camp,
previously used for training young Baath cadets, with no virtually UN
supervision and minimal access to healthcare, despite the fact that most of
these people are starved and in urgent need or medical help. Already few deaths
have been reported. As for the loyalist Shia residents of Kefraya and Fu’ah
near Aleppo, towns still besieged by rebel groups, most of them have reportedly
been taken to Damascus and housed in apartments in the predominantly Shia
neighborhood of Sitti Zeinab. The apartments are believed to have been
previously owned by Sunnis. Most of these Shia residents are reportedly in good
health, because rebel-siege did not prevent the regime from dropping aid from
the air. To many activists, this observation help underscore the need for
dropping aid packages from the air unto besieged rebel towns, a development that
could prevent further ethnic cleansing, as peace talks drag out. Meanwhile,
Hezbollah is allowing his fighters to bring
their families to the city of Yabroud, a majority Christian town north of
Damascus, and are bestowing on them the houses of dislocated residents.

Heil
Assad:Cruz'
Ex Co-Chair in Virginia Heads to Syria, Praises Assad. When you have too
much venom in your souls but can no longer say Heil Hitler, because it’s
no longer in fashion, Heil Assad might just work. I mean, what are you
really risking, other than the state department saying that your views “do not
reflect this administration's policy on Syria.” Indeed, the administration
would never praise Assad, they would just let him kill and stay in power until
his allies get tired of him, or the last Syrian has passed away, whichever comes
first.

The
Incoherence of the Coherence:Donald
Trump, Laying Out Foreign Policy, Promises Coherence. “Standing beneath a
twinkling chandelier,” Mr. Trump delivered the most unenlightened of speeches.
For while his foreign policies might be nothing more than an extension of
Obama’s own taken to their logical xenophobic conclusion, his rhetoric is that
Obama when he was in 6th Grade at best. Be that at it may, by
promising to improve relations with autocrats and show indifference to
democrats and scorn for women and immigrants, Trump consolidated his positions
as the would-be Messiah of all American fascists. Amen and Hallelujah. Averroes
would not have been proud, and Al-Ghazali would have been crucified.

Known to those of his
followers seeking his canonization and entry into the Valtheon of Deliriology,
as Agnus Mundi, and to his detractors as Ranae Dei and even Capra Satanae,
Delirian Mundi’s writings, mixing satire and philosophical reflections,
continue to be polarizing, inspiring both adulation and ridicule. Bearing this
in mind, we, the editors at DDGD, continue to publish these previously unknown
series of “exotic observations and propositions,” as Delirian himself referred
to them, as part of our continuing commitment to instigate debate over
sensitive issues.

* You might get tired of fucking things
up, but that does not excuse your giving up.

* Democracy is a continuous bet
on the wisdom of the crowd which serves to tip the balance to this or that side
of the scale without breaking it. For the wisdom of the crowd as expressed
through the democratic process favors gradual cumulative change, and can
withstand setbacks. It only favors the revolutions when dealing with rigid
autocratic societies where the possibility of change through cumulative reforms
is mooted by the behavior of the authoritarian elite.

SeeMore
Shit:‘A game of cards’:
Seymour Hersh nails Obama & Kerry’s take on Assad. “RT
Correspondent Anya Parampil talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell piece in the London Review of Books.
The article, titled “Military to Military” alleges, based on sources within the
military, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency
advised President Obama against an “Assad must go” policy back in 2013, fearing
if Assad fell the country would plunge into utter chaos or into the hands of
extremists. When the Obama Administration seemed to ignore the advice,
according to Hersh’s sources the Joint Chiefs began sharing intelligence with
Russia, Germany, and Israel with the understanding it would be sent to the
Assad regime and aide its fight against ISIS and other extremists groups. In
the interview, Hersh discusses the implications of his story, the US’s
relationship with Turkey, and why the mainstream media is quick to attack him.”

SeeMore Shit hates
religious extremists and terrorist groups and wants to live in a
"circular" world ruled by "circular" values not one
dominated by the extremists of the Shawarmalite Order and their fucking unruly
nuns. This is why he allies himself with the Falafilites of Syria in their
ongoing battle against the Baba Ghannoujis, and with the Free Czarists of
Tefran and Mosbovine against the Unholy Inferialists of Saucy Amebia and the
United Mates of Amphorica.

SeeMore Shit speaks
coherently about illusions, while passionately endorsing lies, especially those
he deems too big to fail. He drinks his own Kool Aid to sound more believable,
and his own urine to retain his vulturous posture as he pecks on the decaying
cadavers of the truths he killed in search of useful tidbits that could help
him embellish his lies by giving them an aura of authenticity.

To SeeMore Shit, it seems
irrational for people to hate a genocidal tyrant. To him, in a conflict pitting
lions against sheep, the two sides are equally guilty: after all they’re both
fighting! Yet, if there is any side that deserves some sympathy and
consideration, it’s the lions, who are simply doing what lions usually do. How dare
the sheep fight back? It’s simply unnatural. And should some wolves
venture into the fight, he still blames the sheep. And when the vultures
inevitably appear, ghouls emerge and fiends rush in, oh those damn damn sheep.
Just look at a mess they made. It’s always the sheep that warrant his
blame. After all, they dared call on America for help, and even if America is
not really helping, by calling on her the sheep have committed a crime against SeeMore’s
inherent anti-imperial tendencies. And for that they deserve to be
punished. They deserve to have their plight distorted and to experience the
full wrath of all those lions, fiends, ghouls and wolves ganging up on them. So
there.

That’s the essence of SeeMore
Shit’s philosophy. How else could he have earned his name?

Meanwhile, the plot against the
Shawarmalites has developed a new front in Mosbovine.

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